Quotes About Benjamin

Breaking Benjamin, talk about songwriting, I mean, some of the greatest songwriters of the modern era. And, obviously, it's a little heavier.

News is the first rough draft of history.

I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.

The important point that Benjamin and Kant make is that revolutions, whether in art or in society, are about emotion. These moments engender not simply new ideas but new feelings about established power and human possibilities.

Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all.

The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.

Walter Benjamin writes: The talent of a good writer is to make use of his style to supply his thought with a spectacle of the kind provided by a well-trained body. He never says more than he has thought. Hence, his writing redounds not. . . to his own benefit, but solely to the benefit of what he wants to say.

In the world's structure dream loosens individuality like a bad tooth.

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his convictions.

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognise it 'the way it really was' (Ranke). It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger.

As Benjamin Franklin put it, "No European who has tasted Savage Life can afterwards bear to live in our societies."48

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

Benjamin Franklin performed a beautiful experiment using surfactants: on a pond at Clapham Common, he poured a small amount of oleic acid, a natural surfactant which tends to form a dense film at the water-air interface.

I know Donald Trump. I know him very well. And I think his attitude, his support for Israel is clear.

Rather than ask, What is the attitude of a work to the relations of production of its time? I should like to ask, What is its position in them.

The sillier the market's behavior, the greater the opportunity for the business like investor.

He was a little model, was Benjamin. Doctor Franklin. Snuff-colored little man! Immortal soul and all!

The inclusion of dreams is the only viable supplement to the absence of more favourable outcomes.

To do justice to the figure of Kafka in its purity and its peculiar beauty one must never lose sight of one thing: it is the purity and beauty of a failure.

The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.

The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.

The steward searched, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest—and the cup was found in Benjaminís sack.

The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.